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Maintenance Planner

Guardian Industries
life insurance, parental leave
United States, South Carolina, Richburg
Dec 22, 2025
Your Job The Maintenance Scheduler/Planner plays a critical role in ensuring the smooth operation of the manufacturing facility by planning, scheduling, and coordinating maintenance activities. Serve as a liaison between Maintenance, Production, and Management teams to align and communicate scheduled activities. This role focuses on maximizing equipment availability, minimizing downtime, and ensuring maintenance tasks are carried out efficiently and safely according to the predefined maintenance schedules and priorities. Shift: 12 hour rotating shift between days and nights. Must be able to work both. Our Team Who are Guardian Industries? When you are looking at a city's skyline or any of the latest cars and trucks, chances are you're seeing our products. Through Guardian Glass, a Guardian Industries company, we make high- performance, energy efficient glass for homes and buildings. SRG Global, a Guardian Industries company, makes automotive trim products that define a vehicle's DNA and help improve fuel efficiency. And perhaps most of all, we make the ideas, formulas and processes that make these products possible. Guardian Industries is 18,000 people working to make products that improve people's lives! To learn more, visit our website at: https://www.guardian.com. What You Will Do Develop, maintain, and update comprehensive maintenance schedules and work orders for preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities. Collaborate with the Plant Scheduling Department to secure access for maintenance and repairs. Coordinate with maintenance teams, production, and engineering departments to schedule maintenance tasks minimizing impact on production. Analyze equipment history and maintenance data to optimize maintenance plans and improve asset reliability. Prioritize maintenance work orders based on safety, operational impact, and resource availability. Ensure availability of materials, tools, and parts required for planned maintenance activities. Track and report on maintenance work completion, backlog, and schedule adherence. Collaborate with procurement and inventory management for timely availability of spare parts. Support continuous improvement initiatives by identifying scheduling inefficiencies and recommending process improvements. Utilize Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) or Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) software to manage work orders and schedules. Maintain detailed documentation of maintenance schedules, procedures, and records. Assist in outage planning and major shutdown coordination. Who You Are (Basic Qualifications) Proven experience (typically 3+ years) in maintenance planning and scheduling in a manufacturing environment. Proficiency with CMMS/EAM systems (e.g., SAP PM, Maximo, HexagonEAM). Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills. Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, Outlook). Knowledge of maintenance best practices, reliability-centered maintenance (RCM), and preventive maintenance (PM). Familiarity with safety standards and regulatory compliance relevant to manufacturing and maintenance. What Will Put You Ahead Experience with Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, or other continuous improvement methodologies. Ability to interpret technical drawings, equipment manuals, and maintenance procedures. Basic understanding of mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation systems. At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy. Hiring Philosophy All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here. Who We Are As a Koch company, Guardian Glass is one of the world's largest manufacturers of float, value-added and fabricated glass products and solutions. We produce high-performance glass for architectural, residential, interior, transportation and technical glass applications. You'll find our glass in homes, offices and cars and in some of the world's most iconic projects. At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company. Our Benefits Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter. Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results. Equal Opportunities Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).